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Bonus Sample: The God-Man & His Enabler: How Ken Wilber Got Adi Da All Wrong

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

By the 1990s, the sadistic cult leader who claimed to be God on Earth had already fled the United States to avoid a stack of lawsuits and potential criminal charges. Even still, highly influential spiritual intellectual Ken Wilber was calling him the “greatest living realizer,” privately saying he was “happy about how many people had found their way to Adi Da through reading my books.”Wilber later modified his model of stages of spiritual development to try to account for supposedly enlightened beings who were awful people. In this week’s Bonus episode, Julian recounts this story of a sociopathic holy man and his brilliantly naive enabler—which culminates in a wickedly illustrative thought experiment! -- -- --Support us on PatreonPre-order Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat: America | Canada Follow us on Instagram | Twitter: Derek | Matthew | JulianOriginal music by EarthRise SoundSystem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.

0:08.6

Hello, Matthew here from the Conspirituality Podcast team.

0:12.6

The following is a sample of the bonus episode we produce every week for our Patreon subscribers.

0:18.8

You can support our work and have full access to bonus episodes and other premium content

0:23.8

by subscribing for as little as $5 a month

0:27.0

at patreon.com slash Conspirituality.

0:31.2

Thanks for listening and your support, which keeps us ad-free and editorially independent.

0:37.8

The event of Baba Free John is an occasion for rejoicing.

0:43.1

Because without any doubt whatsoever,

0:47.0

he is destined to be recognized as the first Western-born avatar or world teacher

0:53.6

to appear in the history of the world.

0:57.8

For the other great avatars, Christ, Gotama, Krishna, all have been Asian,

1:04.8

but here for the first time is a Western-born spiritual master of the ultimate degree.

1:11.8

Whereas the ordinary person continually abandons this divine mystery

1:16.4

in order to contract into knowledge and sensation,

1:19.8

the awakened one has perfectly and radically fallen into the condition of divine ignorance itself

1:27.8

and thus is perfectly aligned to the utterly spontaneous and unknowable play of the divine.

1:33.8

Founded as the ultimate condition of which all arising is but modification.

1:39.8

Baba Free John stands as simple presence for all who would have recourse to him.

1:46.8

The times at which such enlightened ones have appeared are very rare.

1:53.4

Please make use of the works and presence of Baba Free John to whatever degree you are capable.

2:02.8

And in addition to that very over-the-top endorsement,

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